Day 2 started at 5 Sisters with tea. Dilmah is a brand you can’t get in Canada and which one of my tea-drinking friends raves about. I took this photo to show that I had it in Belize :P.

A Belizean breakfast – refried beans, eggs with veges, a few fruits (watermelon seemed popular in the area, the white thing is a crisp and relatively taste-free fruit, papaya) and a wedge of a hard, slightly sour cheese in the back. A solid breakfast improved only by…

Fried jacks!! (or fry jacks)

These things are one of the two “tastes of Belize”. They are a slightly thick puff pastry served at breakfast. Usually found with honey, as here, but at the end of the trip I had one with a jam and it was similarly delicious. I ate 6 at this meal. >.> They are like…pancake sized. 6 is a lot. I was in love. <3

Lunch was in a little hole-in-the-road road-side burrito place in San Ignacio. The others weren’t impressed with their food, but I think they got unlucky in ordering. My burrito was a beef+bean+cheese and it was excellent. The things on the left are pamades – “something”, in this case fish, but beef/chicken/beans were also available, deep fried in a batter with sliced cabbage on top. I wasn’t in the mood for deep fried at this point, so they were a little disappointing. And the fish was little than exciting.

The lime juice in the background, however, was delicious. It caused me to attempt to order lime juice in other restaurants as well.

As you can see here with another glass of lime juice…

This was a great meal at some place called Benny’s Kitchen or similar in Benque Viejo Del Carmen (someone confirm my locations?). It was hidden amongst houses, with many signs pointing towards it.

This meal is called “Pibil” – it’s pork cooked “underground”, by which I’m told it’s slow cooked with hot rocks. There is a salsa and an avocado and I wrapped it all up in the tortillas on the left. Very tasty!

You can see a jar of “salsa” on the right. This is effectively a jar of onions and spicy peppers. BLAAAH.

A good day of eating and a good day of posting. I’ll probably get to parts of day 3 tomorrow – Tikal has a lot of photos and not a lot of writing. I’m taking off for the weekend again on Friday, so I want to try to get a bunch of stuff out before then.

Thanks for reading!